With difficulty walking, and half-blinded from torture by the
Brazilian military dictatorship, 79 year-old Roberto Freire continues
to develop somatherapy, completing his life's work. Incorporating the
ideas of Wilhelm Reich, the politics of anarchism, and the culture of
capoeira angola, Soma is used by therapists organized in anarchist
collectives to fight the psychological effects of authoritarianism.
Nick Cooper travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia, and São
Paulo to find the exercises, principles, voices, and movement of
somatherapy.